As NYC Builds Seawalls, This Queens Community Feels Left Behind
"A decade after city officials promised to cut flood risks in the Edgemere neighborhood, critics say it remains just as vulnerable."
Source: Floodlight, 11/25/2025
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Texas ‘Ghost Deer’ Suspect Facility Tests Positive For Wasting Disease
"Two captive whitetails tied to the Texas “ghost deer” investigation tested positive for chronic wasting disease at a Tom Green County facility owned by breeder Ken Schlaudt, according to records obtained by Public Domain."
Source: Public Domain, 11/25/2025"Fighting for ‘The Right to Night’ Under Starry, Rural Skies"
"Industrialization in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has some residents pushing for protection of the region’s celestial splendor."
Source: NYTimes, 11/25/2025"We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation."
"For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys from as far away as Ontario all the way to their overwintering colonies in central Mexico."
Source: NYTimes, 11/25/2025"A Bowhead Whale's DNA Offers Clues To Fight Cancer"
"Scientists searching for novel ways to fight cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead tucked away inside the cells of the bowhead whale."
Source: NPR, 11/25/2025"Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End"
"Global climate negotiations ended on Saturday in Brazil with a watered-down resolution that made no direct mention of fossil fuels, the main driver of global warming."
Source: NYTimes, 11/24/2025"How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders"
"Journalists who report on the harms caused by China’s overseas infrastructure buildout in Africa face intimidation, surveillance and police pressure."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/24/2025"Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling"
"The plan from the Interior Department is one of the president’s most significant steps yet to increase domestic fossil fuel production."
"The Trump administration on Thursday announced a plan to allow new oil and gas drilling across nearly 1.3 billion acres of U.S. coastal waters, including a remote region off Alaska in the northern Arctic where drilling has never before taken place.
The plan is one of President Trump’s most significant steps yet to increase the production of fossil fuels, the burning of which is dangerously heating the planet.
Source: NYTimes, 11/24/2025"Bird Flu Patient Dies, Marking Second U.S. Fatality In 2025"
"A Washington resident who was the first human case of bird flu in the U.S. since February died on Friday, state health officials said. The person was an older adult with underlying conditions and had been hospitalized since early November with a strain that was previously reported in animals but never before in humans."
Source: Washington Post, 11/24/2025"3 Massive Changes You'll See As The Climate Careens Toward Tipping Points"
"For the past eight years, one of the primary objectives of the annual negotiations has been to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to the temperatures in the late 1800s. ... But that goal is no longer plausible, scientists say. Humanity has not cut planet-warming pollution quickly enough, and the planet will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, likely in the next decade, according to a recent United Nations report."
Source: NPR, 11/24/2025"Trump’s Energy Department Revamp Nixes Clean-Energy Offices"
"The Trump administration is eliminating Energy Department offices focused on clean energy and renewables and, instead, creating units dedicated to hydrocarbons and fusion energy."
Source: Bloomberg, 11/24/2025"Arid States Prepare for EPA to Walk Away From Their Wetlands"
"Southwestern states are bracing for many of their streams to lose federal safeguards under the EPA’s proposal to lift Clean Water Act protections for many wetlands and waterways across the US. New Mexico, Arizona, California, and other arid states face the brunt of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal because it explicitly excludes streams that only run when it rains—one of the most common kinds of waterways in the desert Southwest."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/24/2025Global Effort to Curb Emissions of a Climate Pollutant Falls Short, UN Says
"Despite the efforts of more than half of all countries worldwide to curb a key climate super-pollutant, a report released this week by the United Nations Environment Programme at the U.N. climate summit shows that global methane emissions continue to climb at a troubling pace."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/24/2025Dumping Mining Waste In Norway’s Arctic Ocean Worries Sámi Fishers, Herders
"Mining company Blue Moon Metals plans to dispose of its mining waste in Repparfjord, a nationally protected salmon fjord in the Norwegian Arctic that Indigenous Sámi fishers rely on."
Source: Mongabay, 11/24/2025Tribal Radio Funding, Future Remain Uncertain After Clawback Of CPB Money
'For the past few weeks, Oitancan “Oi” Zephier has labored among piles of vinyl records nearly 2 feet high. KILI-FM, the Porcupine, South Dakota-based tribal public broadcasting station Zephier manages, has gone digital and no longer needs the records. The station is selling the records, because what it needs is cash."
Source: South Dakota Searchlight, 11/24/2025
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